The Center for Creative Healing

Life

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. -Henry Miller

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -Franz Kafka

For two personalities to meet is like mixing two chemical substances: if there is any combination at all, both are transformed. -Carl Jung

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. -Shunryu Suzuki

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -Winston Churchill

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing. -Ahjan Chah

To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation. And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret B. Runbeck

That's where happiness lies; in the details. Happiness lies in small, particular things. Gloom and depression are general. But happiness is always specific. -Garrison Keillor